Improvement in bundling barrel-head linings



'L.' REED. Bundling liarrel-Hea d Li n ings.

NQ. 196,310. Patented Oct. 23,1877.-

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N. PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHlNGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES LOUIS REED, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUNDLING BARREL-HEAD LININGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,310, dated October 23, 1877; application filed April 5, 1877.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Louis REED, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in the art or method of bundling and tying together curved barrel-head linings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the same.

It is customary to give additional strength and security to the heads of barrels, kegs, &c., by nailing strips of wood to the chines against the heads. These strips are called linings or head-linings. Their extensive use has made them largely an article of commerce, of separate manufacture, and sale. Themost approved and merchantable kind of these linings are those which, being cut of the proper length,

are curved to fit the inner faces of the chines of the barrels, casks, or kegs on which they are intended to be used, and which are prepared for market by beingone or two hundred of them, more or lesslaid together, regularly and in order, and then tied together by strings or wires, thus forming neat, compact bundles.

The price at which these linings are sold makes it necessary that the manufacturer should, in order to be able to derive any profit from their sale, practice the utmost possible economy in their production, and employ the best possible labor-saving expedients and in strulnentalities in their preparation for the market It is the experience of manufacturers that the arranging of these linings in proper order and tying' them up in bundles, as usually done by hand, constitute a large part of the expense of their manufacture. Hence any saving of time or labor that can be effected in these operations, by any means, however simple, is a matter of no inconsiderable importance. A very small saving on each bimdle of linings thus affected may make a business profitable which would otherwise be a losing one.

My invention has relation to the method or art of bimdling and tying these curved linings; and consists in the several successive operations and manipulations hereinafter described and claimed.

These linings are made of a length to occupy about one-fourth of the circumference of the head of the barrel or keg to which they 'are applied, two being used on each head. They are from eight to twelve or fourteen inches in length. Their breadth is somewhat greater than their thickness, and they are curved, so that the broader side fits against the chine of the barrel. When bundled they are laid, with their curved sides together, in layers-or tiers, with the edges of the linings in each tier opposite to those of the adjoining tiers. In order to thus arrange the separate linings into bundles, as ordinarily done, each one is taken up by hand and put in its place. When, however, strips of wood are cut in length to make several linings, and then these strips have given to them the requisite curvature, if then laid upon a plane table, and severally left free to take the position which their form will naturally compel them to take, they will very readily, with very little manipulation, all turn upon their edges, so that they can readily be gathered together with their curved sides in contact; but if these long curved pieces are sep-.

arately cut into short lengths suitable for linings, such short pieces will not readilytake their position upon a table on their edges, not beingsufficiently curved to be sure to doso, but will be as likely to lie on their flat or broad sides, so that it is necessary in bundling them to take up and place them in the bundle separately, or only two or three at a time.

Having reference to the foregoing facts, I have devised a method of bundling and tying these linings in marketable bimdles, wherein I avail myself of the curvatures of long strips to effect a ready and rapid arrangement into packages, and then, bytying these large packages in a peculiar manner, produce merchantable bundles of the completed linings at a great saving of time and labor.

Referring now to the drawings to illustrate my new method, Figure 1 represents a plane table, upon which are thrown a number of the long curved strips of wood designed to be cut into suitable lengths for linings, arranged in order for assembling into a package. Fig. 2 is a view of such package placed in a clamping device and tied together, so as to be capable of having produced therefrom, by merely cross saw-cuts, bundles of the completed linings properly tied. Fig. 3 is aview of a long bundle undergoing the. cutting bya saw into linings, and dis a perspective view of p a 7 completed brindle of lin1ngs.: I

In practicing my method of bundling these 7 linings, Ilayupon theplaneiface of a tablea' number of long strips of wood, out from 7 sheet or block in any'sultable way, and curved Z I to correspond, or nearly so,'tothe eurvatnrerof' the barrel or kegon whichthehnin gs are intend- 7 ed to be used. -Thiey'will allnaturally, if sepa- Z I 7 rated so'asto be free to move readily, arrange i themselves on their edges, as shown In Fig.1.

Then I gather a number of them together, with and laid into a rack, or betweenpins 's'etin the r V 7 table, as seen at B, same figure; i Severaihse ries are; thus arranged and laid onea pon other within thesaid rack or pins. The entire eollectionmay then be transferred to a clasping apparatus, as seen 0, Fig. 2, where they? maybe pressed together for tyin 'I then 5 apply the strings 'or wires, as seen in said figure, one string being tied near eaeh end, as"

at a ah Then I mark ofi or ascertain the lines where the collection is to be out through to V sever it into linings oftheproperlength, which; 1

in saidl ig; 2, are at b 'b bathe collection, as

' shown, being designed to be'out up into four bundles of eompletedlinin'gs. P ()f'eourse, any i V desired number maybe made, and the strings applied accordingly. Then, on either side of' these lines, and about as far from them as the strings a a are from the ends, I tie a string, as at 0 0 o c 0* 0 With the collection thus prepared, I sever it into several bundles, by running a saw through between the strings on the .lines I) 6 b as seen in Fig. 3, each bundle thus produced being arranged and properly tied for transportation and for the market.

In the process of manufacture the long packages or collections described may be tied only at the ends with the ties at a, and stored away, to be out up into linings as orders may be received, and of such lengths as may be ordered, the intermediate strings being applied so that each two of them will be one on each side of, and a suitable distance from, the 'line' of cut, so thateaeh bundle of eompleted 7 line 7 V in gs will beproperly bound or ligatured with r stantor nearly so from' a string or wire equidi the ends of the bundle.

' It is obvious that thepaokages of long curved 1 strips, when formed and tied together with 51901311 the end and intermediate stringsorwir'es,

as above described, may be sawed up into completedbundles of linings atany time there 7 after to suit the convenience of the'manufao- Z turer, or these packages thus prepared maybe sold, and the purchaser may sawthein upinto :suehcompletedbundles V 7 What I claim as my invention, and desire to securebyII ettersPatent, is-L V r i 1. The method: or process herein described of bundling, for transportation andsale, curved 'barrel head. linings, consisting in arranging the same on their straight. edges upon the planeface of a table, and assembling them to gether, with, their opposite curved sides in con i tact, into uniform layers or tiers, and laying 5 several tiers-together one upon another, as i i V 'descr1bed,'to form a package, as seenatA B,

preparatory to tying the bundle thus formed 5 xwith ligatures, one near each end, all as described.

The rm etliod of tying together curved strips of wood: intopaekagespreparatory to i the production therefrom of completed curved 5 V barrel-head linings, bundled fortransportation V and sale, consistingiinapplying to a bundle of V curved stripsiof wood, of suitable form for" curved barrel-head linings, and of sulhcient length for each to make two or more ligatures,

one near each end, and also intermediate ligatures, one on each side of and near to the line or lines of the cut or cuts to be made in severing the package of strips into several packages of completed bundles of linings, so that, when such cuts are made midway between the said intermediate ligatures, each bundle shall be tied with two ligatures, one near each end, all as described.

Witness my hand this 3d day of April, 1877.

LOUIS REED.

Witnesses:

B. S. CLARK, M. F. CLIFTON.

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